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The Efficiency-Destroying Magic of Tidying Up
Take a moment and consider the quest to find the fastest multiplication algorithm. For millennia, we used the classical method. (Shift and add. 3 lines of pseudo code)
Then, along came Fast Fourier Transform based algorithms.
pfdietz
on Nov 18, 2019
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The Karatsuba algorithm was found before Schönhage-Strassen.
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Then, along came Fast Fourier Transform based algorithms.